Diagnose Stall

Diagnose Stall is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by danielvm-git in bigpowers.

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Install Diagnose Stall

Copy Diagnose Stall into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers/tree/main/skills/diagnose-stall ~/.claude/skills/diagnose-stall

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/diagnose-stall/SKILL.md in danielvm-git/bigpowers
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/diagnose-stall
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Diagnose Stall does

Diagnose Stall identifies why agent orchestration stopped making progress in loops, dispatches, or plan execution. Use it when output goes quiet, a subagent never returns, or a checkpoint is overdue.

Diagnose Stall is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Diagnose Stall comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, automation, bmad, claude-code and clean-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Diagnose Stall

HARD GATE — Do NOT restart work blindly. Run this diagnostic first when orchestration goes quiet without an explicit terminal state.

Explicit handler for silent stalls in long-running agent workflows (/loop, dispatch-agents, execute-plan, build-epic resume mode).

Stall signals

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Diagnose Stall provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/loop

Frequently asked about Diagnose Stall

What else does danielvm-git publish alongside Diagnose Stall?
Diagnose Stall is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danielvm-git/bigpowers, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Align Grid, Assess Impact and Audit Code. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Diagnose Stall does, and is maintained by danielvm-git in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the danielvm-git/bigpowers page.
How does Diagnose Stall compare to other Automation skills?
Diagnose Stall ranks #1968 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Diagnose Stall against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.